1882 History of Linn County, Missouri
CHARLES JAMES FORE
Clay Township
was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, September 16, 1823. His father's name was Silas Fore, and his mother's name Sarah C. (Moss) Fore, the name and ancestry being of French origin. When Charles was one year old, his parents moved to Prince Edward County, and there continued till 1834, when the family numbering seven white members and three slaves, came to this State, and stopped in Chariton county, till the elder Fore had found a permanent location. The latter entered a tract of land two and a half miles north of the present site of Linneus, to which he moved his family in the fall of 1834. There Charles grew up and received such an education as those primitive days afforded.
On starting in life for himself he became a farmer, and has followed that calling the greater part of his life. He has also possessed of considerable mechanical ability, and sometimes worked at the carpenter and wheelwright trades. In 1867 he moved on a farm he had bought in Clay township, and lived there till June 1881, when he moved to Eversonville, having formed a mercantile partnership with Mr. Brinkley.
Mr. Fore was married October 13, 1848 to Miss Ann Elizabeth Wills, daughter of Richard Wills, of Kentucky. They have had twelve children, nine of whom survive at this writing.
Mr. Fore and wife belong to the Christian Church. Politically he was formerly a Whig, but is now an ardent Greenbacker. He is one of the oldest settlers still living in Linn, having spent nearly half a century in this county.
CHARLES JAMES FORE
Clay Township
was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, September 16, 1823. His father's name was Silas Fore, and his mother's name Sarah C. (Moss) Fore, the name and ancestry being of French origin. When Charles was one year old, his parents moved to Prince Edward County, and there continued till 1834, when the family numbering seven white members and three slaves, came to this State, and stopped in Chariton county, till the elder Fore had found a permanent location. The latter entered a tract of land two and a half miles north of the present site of Linneus, to which he moved his family in the fall of 1834. There Charles grew up and received such an education as those primitive days afforded.
On starting in life for himself he became a farmer, and has followed that calling the greater part of his life. He has also possessed of considerable mechanical ability, and sometimes worked at the carpenter and wheelwright trades. In 1867 he moved on a farm he had bought in Clay township, and lived there till June 1881, when he moved to Eversonville, having formed a mercantile partnership with Mr. Brinkley.
Mr. Fore was married October 13, 1848 to Miss Ann Elizabeth Wills, daughter of Richard Wills, of Kentucky. They have had twelve children, nine of whom survive at this writing.
Mr. Fore and wife belong to the Christian Church. Politically he was formerly a Whig, but is now an ardent Greenbacker. He is one of the oldest settlers still living in Linn, having spent nearly half a century in this county.
1882 History of Linn County, Missouri
CHARLES JAMES FORE
Clay Township
was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, September 16, 1823. His father's name was Silas Fore, and his mother's name Sarah C. (Moss) Fore, the name and ancestry being of French origin. When Charles was one year old, his parents moved to Prince Edward County, and there continued till 1834, when the family numbering seven white members and three slaves, came to this State, and stopped in Chariton county, till the elder Fore had found a permanent location. The latter entered a tract of land two and a half miles north of the present site of Linneus, to which he moved his family in the fall of 1834. There Charles grew up and received such an education as those primitive days afforded.
On starting in life for himself he became a farmer, and has followed that calling the greater part of his life. He has also possessed of considerable mechanical ability, and sometimes worked at the carpenter and wheelwright trades. In 1867 he moved on a farm he had bought in Clay township, and lived there till June 1881, when he moved to Eversonville, having formed a mercantile partnership with Mr. Brinkley.
Mr. Fore was married October 13, 1848 to Miss Ann Elizabeth Wills, daughter of Richard Wills, of Kentucky. They have had twelve children, nine of whom survive at this writing.
Mr. Fore and wife belong to the Christian Church. Politically he was formerly a Whig, but is now an ardent Greenbacker. He is one of the oldest settlers still living in Linn, having spent nearly half a century in this county.
CHARLES JAMES FORE
Clay Township
was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, September 16, 1823. His father's name was Silas Fore, and his mother's name Sarah C. (Moss) Fore, the name and ancestry being of French origin. When Charles was one year old, his parents moved to Prince Edward County, and there continued till 1834, when the family numbering seven white members and three slaves, came to this State, and stopped in Chariton county, till the elder Fore had found a permanent location. The latter entered a tract of land two and a half miles north of the present site of Linneus, to which he moved his family in the fall of 1834. There Charles grew up and received such an education as those primitive days afforded.
On starting in life for himself he became a farmer, and has followed that calling the greater part of his life. He has also possessed of considerable mechanical ability, and sometimes worked at the carpenter and wheelwright trades. In 1867 he moved on a farm he had bought in Clay township, and lived there till June 1881, when he moved to Eversonville, having formed a mercantile partnership with Mr. Brinkley.
Mr. Fore was married October 13, 1848 to Miss Ann Elizabeth Wills, daughter of Richard Wills, of Kentucky. They have had twelve children, nine of whom survive at this writing.
Mr. Fore and wife belong to the Christian Church. Politically he was formerly a Whig, but is now an ardent Greenbacker. He is one of the oldest settlers still living in Linn, having spent nearly half a century in this county.
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